Japanese honey bee and West honey bee's differences

A Japanese honey bee is a bee that lived in Japan from of old. The
West honey bee is the one imported from the West because of apiculture.
There are various differences though both honeys can be collected. It is
necessary to understand these differences to keep bees.

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Japanese honey bee's characteristic and the breeding

A Japanese bee is a bee that lives in the Japanese Islands from of old. It
seems to have been done to not sparing of apiculture that used a Japanese bee in
Kisyu state clan in Edo period.

In a Japanese bee, it is feature that the collection quantity of honey is a
little compared with the West bee. Moreover, there is a character to escape at
once if it likes neither the nest nor the environment where it lives. Therefore,
breeding of a Japanese bee has decreased gradually after the Meiji era.

There is time when continuing as the seed was worried because the number of
trees with broad leaves decreases in the mountainous district because of the
afforestation of the Japan cedar and the Japanese cypress, and the number of
Japanese bees that live in the wildwood decreases. However, Japanese bee's lover
has the symptom that breeding of a Japanese bee revives in the part between
Nakayama and the city part recently.

When the vespid is attacked, a Japanese bee can kill the vespid in the group
because of heat. However, the nest might be abandoned when the vespid is
attacked in the group or it is attacked for days how many and it run away.

Feature of Japanese honey bee's body

Japanese bee's striped pattern in the body is clear. The color in the every
part of the body is near the black, and it is feature that the body is a little
small compared with the West bee.

Japanese honey bee's character

It is easy to more obedient than the West bee, and the feature in Japanese
bee's character to breed to the sickness strongly. However, a Japanese bee runs
away at once compared with the West bee when the environment where it lives is
bad. A Japanese bee can live by its power in the natural world.

A Japanese bee has the character that bee's crowd concentrates on the special
orchis named Kinryouhen flower. The dividing crowd can be captured by using
this. The West bee doesn't look round in the flower of Kinryouhen.

West honey bee's characteristic and the breeding

The West bee became by using the bee distributed from Europe in the Middle
East as apiculture like the domestic animal. It was imported in Japan because of
apiculture at the Meiji era. It is kept to catch honey in Japanese whole land
now. It is a feature that the ability to collect honey is high.

The feature in the one kept by the West bee in Japan is to do the color that
it is the main and the abdomen is yellow by the kind of Italian kind.

The West bee doesn't have the so many things that oppose a vespine attack in
the group. The nest might be abandoned for a vespine attack, it not run away,
and one crowd be annihilated in several hours. The West bee cannot live if there
is no protection of man in the natural world of Japan.

Feature of West honey bee's body

Width with black striped pattern in the body wider than a Japanese bee near
hips, and feature in the chest a near part are to narrow. In the West bee, the
color that the color in the every part of the body is near yellow is done, and
it is a body or the large one is a feature compared with a Japanese bee.

West honey bee's character

The West bee hangs easily in the sickness in an aggressive character compared
with a Japanese bee, and the time of breeding hangs. However, there is little
thing from which it runs away.

Method of distinguishing Japanese honey bee and the West honey bee

The easiest distinction method of a Japanese bee and the West bee is to
compare the colors of worker bee's abdomen. A Japanese bee is doing a black
color to the whole. Moreover, a white striped pattern is remarkable. There is
the West bee by the every part of the body and is somewhile yellow. Moreover, a
Japanese bee is more diminutive than the West bee.